AHRB Research Leave Award for a monograph project on the censorship of Jurek Becker

prize for PhD thesis from Bochum University

Languages

German, English, French, Latin, modern Hebrew

Teaching (UG)

SML1018 - Introduction to Literature

GER2011 - M for Murder

GER4014 - German Representations of the Holocaust

Teaching and Research Training (PG)

The Art of Connecting: Intertextuality

Speaking to Different Audiences

Working in Archives Abroad: Germany and Israel

Research Supervision

Dr Müller is happy to supervise research students on modern German literature and on Holocaust-related topics. She is currently supervising a PhD project on the use of pre-war photos in Holocaust exhibitions and a PhD thesis on the juvenilia of Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer.

Research

Research Interests

Dr Müller's expertise lies in censorship studies; GDR literature (esp. Jurek Becker); parody; modernism (Kafka; Thomas Mann); as well as postmodernism, literary theory, and comparative literature. She is particularly interested in narrative representations of the Holocaust (in fictional and non-fictional texts) as well as the role of child figures in Holocaust narratives.

I'm happy to supervise research students on modern German literature, censorship, and on Holocaust-related topics. I'm currently supervising two PhD students: one on the use of pre-war photos in Holocaust exhibitions; and another one on the juvenalia of Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer. Another supervisee of mine who wrote a PhD thesis on filmic representations of the Holocaust in German, Israeli, and Hollywood cinemas since 1990, has recently graduated.

Esteem Indicators & Impact

assessor of grant applications for the Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfond FWF (since 2013) and the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg FNR (since 2016);

radio feature interview for programme on parodies of academic writing for Deutschlandradio Kultur, Sept. 2009;

podcast for German website of Yad Vashem, Israel's leading research institution on the Holocaust (2013);

interview for BBC 4 TV documentary on metamorphosis (initial broadcast in March 2013)

repeated invitations to speak publicly about my research in the context of Newcastle City Council's activities for Holocaust Remembrance Day (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)

invitation to deliver a training session for the Holocaust Education Trust's CPD workshop on the Holocaust (Leicester, February 2017)

curator of exhibitions on "Child Holocaust Testimonies" and "Children under Hitler", displayed in Newcastle's City Library in the autumn of 2015 and in the context of Newcastle City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day programme (January 2016), as well as for a larger exhibition on children under the Nazis, which was shown at the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation's centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg in June 2017

External Funding

AHRB Research Leave Award to support monograph on the censorship of Jurek Becker (2001/02)

British Academy Small Grant Award to support archival research on child Holocaust narratives in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and the Wiener Library (London) (2009/10)

Fellowship from EHRI, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, for a project on "Fine Young Democrats? German Youth in OMGUS Surveys, 1945-49" (2016, for a research trip to the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich)